racism

  • Movie News

5 Ugly Truths About Abraham Lincoln Exposed in Netflix’s Amend: The Fight for America

Abraham Lincoln has long been celebrated in American cinema with films like Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th president.…

6 months ago
  • Movie News

The Jazz Singer and Blackface: How Hollywood’s Origins Will Always Be Entwined with Racism

Viewers who tuned into ABC News on Oct. 3, 1977, heard that the The Jazz Singer — a film released 50…

4 years ago
  • Interviews

Meet Daryl Davis, the Black Musician Who Makes Klansmen See That Black Lives Matter

In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you. Sound familiar? It’s the Golden Rule found in…

4 years ago
  • Interviews

(In)Visible Portraits Is a ‘Love Letter to Black Women and a Re-education for Everyone Else’

The dedication for (In)Visible Portraits, the new documentary from Oge Egbuonu, calls it a “love letter to Black women and a reeducation…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

How the Black Lives Matter Movement Is Already Affecting Films

The Black Lives Matter demonstrations have led many media companies and Hollywood creatives to pledge their support for the movement…

4 years ago
  • Directing
  • Screenwriting

Meet Jesse Baget’s Cellmates: How to make a comedic social commentary work

When you pitch a comedy about a Ku Klux Klansman around Hollywood you tend to get a lot of rejections.…

12 years ago